Word: credited
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...historic credit," the study says gratefully, "to have recognized the vital importance of creating healthy economic conditions as an essential prerequisite for a lasting peace." Wrote Austria's Chancellor Julius Raab in a foreword : "The generous aid of the American people ended the seemingly inevitable decline of the old continent. Today there is no doubt that without this aid Europe would have been engulfed by poverty, suffering and chaos . . . Whenever and however we celebrate the anniversary of Austria's rescue from economic collapse, we should remember that the means for our reconstruction were contributed by the American taxpayer...
Khrushchev delivered this "friendly" warning at a Moscow reception marking the signing with Iraq of a major new $138 million Soviet loan agreement. The agreement, pledging the Iraqis a twelve-year credit for building a steel mill and at least 14 factories, thrust the Soviet Union into Britain's old place at the center of oil-rich Iraq's economic development. The first 80 Soviet technicians, said Iraq's Communist-lining Economics Minister Ibrahim Kubba. would arrive within a month...
...work in China's socialist reconstruction." Red China's muscled minions, according to the Peking press, "resolutely pledged themselves to overcome all difficulties and all individualist ideas existing in their innermost minds, and strive to become the vanguard on the physical-culture front." Chen himself gave due credit to patriotic inspiration. "During the jerk event, I was somewhat nervous," said he, "but just then I looked down at the responsible comrades of our country's athletic association. This indeed meant the ideas of the party were in me, encouraging me. This strengthened my determination...
Western researchers are willing to credit Russian colleagues with notable contributions to the study of fats and heart disease. The reverse is not true, the Canadian Medical Association Journal complained last week. Political ideology apparently is more potent than scientific solidarity. It quoted a Soviet internist, Professor I. Gurevitch, as writing in Klinicheskaya Meditsina that the campaign to reduce fats in the diet is a capitalist plot-"advantageous to the ruling classes, who are at present engaged in lowering the living standard of the masses, in lowering their wages and in raising the price of food and particularly...
...serious blow in this department was the recent loss of left-handed junk-baller Gerry Emmet. Emmet had two or three fine games to his credit last year and might have been the top Crimson pitcher this spring. However, he injured his shoulder playing for the squash team during the winter months, and is now a very shaky prospect at best...